“I haven’t made much secret of the fact that I’d like to return to public service and that’s one path I’ve looked at,” Romanoff told Politico in regard to the 6th District. “I haven’t made any decision.”

“The real question is what will Andrew Romanoff auction off this time around to pay for his campaign? The last thing Congress needs is more people like Andrew Romanoff who can’t even balance their own budgets,” Tyler Q. Houlton, a National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman, said in a statement.

But with it only being January 2013, who knows if a Romanoff, Coffman race will even occur.

Speculation has swirled that Coffman might look to run for Senate in 2014 against Sen. Mark Udall[11] who is up for reelection that year.